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in thread Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH

Thanks. I hadn't done the character conversion correctly. I needed s/\x{2016}/.../. There were three other characters I found in recent feed as well: 2019, 201C, and 201D. If you see any others needing to be converted, please drop me a note. Thanks!

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Re^4: Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH
by NERDVANA (Priest) on Jan 11, 2024 at 04:19 UTC
    Maybe hit the remainder with Text::Unidecode if you don't want any UTF-8 output?
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      Text::Unidecode

      Is that in the standard library? I don't have the ability to install modules on this system. (Maybe Corion can do it.)

      And would this be all I need? i.e. will it cover the four that I've already done?

      Thanks!

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        Definitely a cpan module. 
        perl -E 'use Text::Unidecode; say unidecode("\x{2016} \x{2019} \x{201C
+} \x{201D}")'
|| ' " "

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        are you sure you had the right codepoint above for 2016?

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